While Audacity is a great audio editing utility with the ability to record sounds and edit them afterwards it still felt a little bit overweight for the mere task of recording sounds fast on a computer. I found a freeware utility that can record sounds from any incoming source in various formats including ogg vorbis, monkey audio, mp3 and acm.
The best feature of Harddisk Ogg is that it sits in the tray once configured and you can start the recording with a single mouse click and end it with another one. The quality of the recorded audio can be configured in detail including bitrate, mono or stereo recording and encoding quality.
Harddisk Ogg offers several normalization modes that amplify the input signal to a constant volume. You need to download and move the lame encoder into the folder of Harddisk Ogg to be able to record mp3 files directly.
I would like to explain why a tool like Harddisk Ogg might be useful now or in the near future. Several countries have already laws in place that make it illegal to copy music from Cd’s if the CD is copy protected. They still allow however to record the songs using audio devices and compare this to the recording of radio with audio tapes.
This is also great if you want to rip audio from music videos that you found on the internet or from youtube videos.
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[...] En muchas ocasiones hemos necesitado alguna herramienta sencilla para poder realizar grabaciones directamente de la computadora. Usted sabrá exactamente que cosas, pero por ejemplo pueden ser instrucciones habladas o simplemente una grabación mostrando como realizar determinada acción en la bodega o la manera correcta de capturar una factura en el sistema de contabilidad. O simplemente grabar música para un spot de televisión o radio. Para lo que usted lo necesite entonces le ofrecemos un programa gratuito llamado HarddiskOgg con el que podrá realizar todo esto y mucho mas. Una aplicación que le sacará de apuro en mas de una ocasión y que es tan sencilla que con un sólo click la puede encender y con otro apagar. via Ghacks.net [...]
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[...] information such as artist, album and song names to the file names automatically. Harddisk Ogg (review, developer) – Record sound from any source into an ogg, wav or mp3 stream in realtime. Start and [...]
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[...] Ogg (revisión, desarrollador) – Graba sonido de cualquier entrada en tiempo real a un ogg, wav o mp3 stream. [...]
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[...] is usually not a problem to download the songs. If nothing helps a direct audio recording tool like Audacity does the trick. That tool can record all sounds that the user can hear, a last resort so to [...]
Audacity does the same thing, albeit in two or possibly 3 clicks depending upon if you are or are not recording a sound generated by the pc.
I’ve been using Audio Record Wizard for a few years and like it a lot. Small footprint, records mono/stero 11.8 to 44.1, and can be set up for scheduling. Payware, but pretty cheap for that.